"darcs record; darcs send; darcs unrecord --last=1" fails in (partial) ghc head repo

[Simon Marlow]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:34:16PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
>> is darcs really not useable with partial repos? that would be a pain.
>> i know that several ghc developers have already given up on partial
>> repos
> 
> The bug you ran into is why we abandoned partial repos.
> 
>> if partial repos are unusable at the moment, what is the target date 
>> for fixing this issue?
> 
> I don't know of anyone actively working on it.
> 
> It doesn't help that we only have large repos demonstrating the problem;
> I tried to reproduce it starting from scratch, but the obvious things
> didn't work.

Doesn't the lazy partial repository stuff in darcs already address this 
issue?  I haven't had a chance to try it out with GHC, but I believe it's 
intended to solve the problems we had with missing patches in partial 
repos.  Unfortunately it needs the new repo format, so we can't switch to 
it incrementally.

Cheers,
	Simon